It does appear from recent happenings in Nigeria that we had underestimated the damage done to its national psyche by the hideous dictatorship of Sani Abacha and his precursors. Earlier this month President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is not known for pessimism, admitted that his inaugural promise to solve the problem of electric power supply in the country had not recognised the depth of corruption in the power-generating industry...more